My Saturday involved doing my kitchen chores while singing along to loud 80s Bon Jovi and then an evening of TV entertainment which involved Strictly, awe-inspiring record-breaking Grand Prix Final figure skating*, and Red2 (I want to be Helen Mirren when I grow up ( Read more... )

You can always rely on a Poliakoff drama to look ravishing if nothing else. I'm enjoying this one rather more than the last (Glorious 39) so far and Angel Coulby has a beautiful voice. Is it just me though, or is he a bit obsessed with sinister government bureaucracy?

In other news, the Boy found a copy of English Costume - painted and described ( Read more... )

( cut for spoilers for last night's Being Human and Cryoburn by Lois McMaster Bujold, oh and Ally McBeal I guess, not that that's likely to bother anyone now! )

*Big work meeting on Thursday went pretty well - have comprehensive plan of attack for getting paper accepted in GCB and detailed to do list. Spent the evening at the student union creating my character for the Boy's 7th Sea game inspired by the Dorothy Dunnett books we have both been reading. Can't wait to play her, she's a beautiful and deadly ( Read more... )

*Saturday started off very badly, when I woke up to Tony Blair being interviewed on the Today programme and wanted to stab his eyes out after about 2 minutes. I then spent the rest of the weekend avoiding all news and coverage of the 9/11 memorials like the plague, which did wonders for my sanity ( Read more... )

Achey head on Monday turned into thumping head and feeling sick by late afternoon :( Annoyingly this meant I missed the last session of Star Wars, and yesterday I did the washing up and spent the rest of the day on the sofa feeling sorry for myself and watching The Mysterious Cities of Gold* because my head hurt too much to read ( Read more... )

*Booked a ceilidh band for the wedding today.

*Have given up on new Torchwood, really can't be arsed with it as I simply don't care about the plot or the characters any more. Am enjoying The Killing though so my Thursday evening TV viewing is sorted anyway.

*Am reading Nicolo Rising by Dorothy Dunnett at the moment and thoroughly enjoying it. I ( Read more... )

* I walked about 5 miles along Tentsmuir Sands barefoot yesterday. I'm quite surprised I don't have sore feet or a dodgy hip today but then I guess soft sand is quite supportive. It was very pleasant, although the sea was unsurprisingly rather colder than Brighouse Bay was (North Sea vs Irish ( Read more... )

Waterstone's sent me a email plugging reduced top sellers and one of them is The Carrie Diaries, a Sex and the City prequel, except I have The Vampire Diaries on the brain just now because it is the season finale tomorrow so somehow this has become Caroline and the gang taking a young Carrie down a peg or two in my head. It's very like a girly ( Read more... )

- Am reading Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente at the moment. It's like the novel version of some kind of mad Studio Ghibili film with added sex, written in incredibly flouncy language. The poetry and imagery is impressive but the characters seem completedly empty so far, it doesn't seem to have any heart underneath the surface. Maybe I'm just an ( Read more... )